Shoe-horn.



Patented Oct. 29, l90l.

A. G. WILLIAMS.

SHOE HORN. lication filed June 26, 1901) (No Model.)

NITED ST TES PATENT FEIcE.

ALFRED e. WlLLlAMS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERsEY, AssIoNoR To I-I y LL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY.

SHOE-HORN.

SEECJZFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,548, dated October 29, 1901. Application filed June 26, 1901. Sam llo.'66;055. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Ze it known that I, ALFRED G. WILnIAMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at 319 Belleville avenue, in Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Horns with T ubular Tangs, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same. The object of the present invention is to furnish a shoe-horn with a tubular tang to which a handle can be applied, thus fitting the shoe-horn for use with ornamented handles and others of fancy design, so as to form parts of mounted toilet sets.

As the shoe-horn is made of sheet metal, it would be undesirable and expensive to form a tang separately and attachit to the horn, and the sheet metal itself is not rigid enough to form a tang Without increasing its thickness in some manner. Furthermore, a tang attached to the sheet metal would grasp the metal merely by its own thickness and the horn would be liable to bend if of such thicknessadjacent to the handle, as the horn is narrow and weak at its upper end. To form a tang of sufficient strength and to connect the same with sutficient rigidity to the shoehorn, I construct the tang by extending the sheet metal from the upper or smaller end of the horn in a tongue of suitable width to roll into a tubular tangand form integral with such tongue lateral wings or flanges upon the upper end of the horn, which can be folded or 5 curved upon the edges of the horn to stilfeu the same at its junction with the tang.

The shoe-horn has Very little curvature in cross-section, and where it is contracted to join the tang it would have very little sec- 0 tional area of metal at the junction without the wings which I provide. With my construction the tang forms a close-rolled cylinder, the metal of which extends directly into the curved Wings where they are folded upon the edges of the horn, and thus greatly strengthens the junction of the horn and the tang.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a plan of the blank for the shoehorn and tang; Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the shoe-horn having a handle applied to the tang. Fig. 3 shows the underside of the shoehorn formed with theintegral tang. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 in Fig. 3, showing the stiffening of the horns edges by the curved wings; and Fig. 5 is an end View of the en-. tire horn looking toward the tang.

The blank for the combined shoe-horn and tang is shown in Fig. 1, where a designates the body of the horn, which when finished is slightly concave transversely, as shown in Fig. 2. From the smaller end of the body a tongue 0 is projected of suitable width to roll into a close cylindrical tang c, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5.

The upper end of the horn is formed with the integral wings I), extending'from the root of the tang along the edges ofthe bodya for a suitable distance to reinforce the-bod y when folded over upon the same, as shown at b in Figs. 3 and 4, which represent the horn inverted.

The end view in Fig. 5 shows clearly the thickening of the edges of the horn where it is joined to the tang, and Figs. 3 and 5 both show the reinforcement of the horn by the bent wings adjacent to the tang.

A handle dis shown in Fig. 2 secured upon the tang, and it will be understood that in the case of a shoe-horn the handle is applied more for ornament than for support, as the shoe-horn is supported within the shoe when in use and the handle is not subjected to any strain. The tang provided by my invention furnishes ample support for such a handle, in which no prying strain is exerted upon the implement, and the invention is thus adapted for such an article, although it would not be suitable for a trowel or other sheet-metal article which is subjected to severe strain and in which a large tubular handle is often employed.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what is claimed herein i's- 1. The shoe-horn at having integral tang c of close-rolled cylindrical form, with integral wings b extended from such tang and folded over upon the edges of the horn, substantially In testimony whereof I have hereunto set as herein set forth. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 1o 2. The shoe-horn having integral tang c, Witnesses. of close-rolled cylindrical form, with integral ALFRED G WILLIAMS wings 1) extended from such tang and folded over upon the edges of the horn, and a handle Witnesses:

secured upon such tang, substantially as here J. D. CLARK,

in set forth. THOMAS S. CRANE. 

